Eduardo Zapata 1
David Hume (1711-1776) was a Scottish philosopher and historian, during the age of
Enlightenment, known for his philosophical empiricism, states that knowledge principally from
sensory experience, and naturalism, only natural laws and forces operate in the world. Hume was
rivetted by human nature and sought to demystify “popular superstition” as Merlchert writes,
“deliverances of religious enthusiasm, together with the conviction of certainty that typically
accompanies them”, (395). David Hume strives to accomplish for human nature as that Newton
had done for nonhuman nature. To give principles of explanation both simple and comprehensive
(395, Melchert).
David Hume contends “that human ideas, feelings, and actions that are distinctive and
require special treatment. Ideas are particularly important because they are involved in nearly all
the activities that are characteristically human” (397, Melchert), Hume is constructing the basics
